The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 63
With rumours dark Emania’s streets are rife: The king has vowed your death:--draws any near?
Who acts: rumours, king, rife, your · What happens: be, vow, draw, die · To what, where: rife, death, any
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rumours, king, rife, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 rumours | case |
| 2 | rumours | rumour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rife | nsubj |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 streets | amod |
| 4 | Emania | Emania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 streets | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Emania | case |
| 6 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rumours | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rife | cop |
| 8 | rife | rife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 vowed | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 vowed | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 vowed | aux |
| 13 | vowed | vow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 rife | acl:relcl |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 death | nmod:poss |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 vowed | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 vowed | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 draws | punct |
| 18 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rife | acl:relcl |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 draws | obj |
| 20 | near | near | ADV | _ | 18 draws | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 rife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | rumours and Emania's dark streets | rife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vow | present · perfect | the king | your death | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw | present | rife not said here | any | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme | |||
| 4 | die | your | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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